Talk:Naperville train disaster

disaster or wreck?

Should this be the "Naperville train wreck"? It would match the similar Downers Grove train wreck, and "disaster" seems maybe POV?

Edit: Either way, should the year be before the suburb name? One one eight (talk) 23:41, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

I don't think "disaster" is a biased point of view-- it undoubtedly was a disaster. And we already have Angola Horror, which is how that disaster was commonly termed. And unless there were other incidents in Naperville, we don't need a year. Kablammo (talk) 12:45, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

OK. Here is something I ran into at DG, applies here, too. Should newspaper headlines be all caps? Sammy D III (talk) 13:01, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Convert to lower case per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#All_caps. Kablammo (talk) 14:30, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

reword

The stuff in front isn't right. Only the last sentence of "Setting" is needed, the rest is just background. I didn't like that "Wreck" was the first section, POV only. I don't know if that train stuff should be part of "Wreck", or if "Wreck" should still start with "According to initial...". I do think that train stuff is useful somehow. Some more refs will show up in time, but almost everything now is covered by the newspapers. One one eight (talk) 16:27, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Feel free to reorganize it and edit as you choose! Kablammo (talk) 22:04, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. One one eight (talk) 01:58, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Which train section?

Was it the First Section of the Exposition Flyer that ran into the Second Section of the Advance Flyer? Casey (talk) 18:38, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

The Advance Flyer (in advance of the Expo) was the first section and stopped, the Exposition Flyer (Section 2, the base train) rear-ended the Advance Flyer. EDIT: I don't think I personally (118) have seen anything that says two sections and not two separate trains, but I don't know RR operation. Sammy D III (talk) 18:51, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Confusing phrasing in "aftermath" section.

The engineer of the Exposition Flyer was the center of the investigations. He said he was going too fast, the railroad said the signals were functioning correctly.

Who said who was going too fast? Did the engineer accuse himself of speeding? Did someone else accuse him of speeding?

Or, did he say that he was going too fast to stop in this situation, but not too fast for responsible train driving?

I would fix this myself, but I don't have easy access to the source, so I don't know what was intended. ApLundell (talk) 22:30, 25 April 2022 (UTC)